Category Politics
Was It A Mistake?
Another unfinished post, this one from August 2021. I realize I have several pandemic-related posts that I didn’t finish, for one reason or another. COVID-19 dominated public consciousness like nothing else in my lifetime, It still shows up in the headlines fairly frequently. In many countries, the rate of people getting vaccinated against COVID-19 has […]
The Orphanage
It is Flashback Friday once more. Today we go back to March 22, 2015 and some reflections on a visit to Istanbul. I wrote about visiting one of the Princes Islands in Istanbul, and my interest in the abandoned building at the top of the hill. I recently discovered there is more to the story of that […]
The Deal
Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. – Psalm 146:3 Somewhere I have a half-finished post from 2022 that I never got around to sharing here. In it I quoted Psalm 146, warning NDP leader Jagmeet Singh not to trust the Prime Minister, who had just made a deal with […]
Still True
Even if Trump’s ideology were not noxious, his incompetence is a threat to all around him. To say that it is amateur hour at the White House is to slander amateurs. – David Brooks, The New York Times, January 31, 2017. It is Flashback Friday, and this quote, which was the entire post from […]
Solving The Problem
I wrote the words in italics below more than a year ago, in mid-January 2023. For whatever reason, I never finished the post. Which, as it turns out may have been a good thing – I would probably have looked pretty silly to anyone reading the post today, as I will explain once you’ve read […]
Twitter and Free Speech
I found this post from January 2021 in my draft post file. No idea why it didn’t get posted back then. These days the name has changed, as Twitter is now X – but the issues remain the same. My 2024 reflections will be in italics at the end. I’m a big proponent of free […]
A Win For The Truckers
It is too late to make a difference, but it does set a precedent for the future. The federal government is appealing of course, not just because of the precedent but because the court ruling makes the Prime Minister and his Cabinet look bad. On Tuesday the Federal court ruled that the Trudeau government’s use […]
Is It All Over?
Well that was anti-climactic. Despite his opponents spending hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat him, Donald Trump has apparently locked up the Republican Party nomination for this year’s American presidential election. It isn’t usually over after the first primary, but such is the state of the Republican Party. And indeed of America. Now Trump’s […]
The Winner
The American presidential election campaign kicks into high gear today with the Iowa Caucus. The winners are basically predetermined, al three of them. Americans, having grown up in the system, instinctively understand the difference between a caucus and a primary, the form most states use to choose party delegates to a presidential nominating convention. If […]
The First One
The first real storm of the winter has started. It’s Tuesday afternoon and I have been shoveling already. There’s another 15-20 centimeters on the way. Snow isn’t the problem. It is the freezing rain and ice pellets that are coming overnight. The online “snow day predictor” tells me there’s a 99% school buses will be […]
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